| Slender-Leaved Luisia |
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| File size | 192145 |
| Original date | 5/29/11 12:39 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 72.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Luisia tenuifolia Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Cymbidium tenuifolium, Luisia evangelinae
Synonyms: Cymbidium tenuifolium, Luisia evangelinae
Slender-Leaved Luisia is an orchid which grows on trees. Stem is long
slender, leaves 4-7 inches long. Flowers are few, large, with petals
narrow, twice as long as the ovate concave sepals. Lip is narrowly fiddle-
shaped, convex, with base broad, 2-eared. Lip has two divergent lobes.
Sepals are 1.2-1.6 cm long, yellowish-green, stained with red. Petals are
more green. Lip is twice as long as the lateral sepals, white or greenish
with deep purple base and lobes, or purple streaked with paler lines.
Slender-Leaved Luisia is found in the Western Ghats, from Konkan to
Travencore, and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale, Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed at Anmod Ghat, Karnataka. |
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